Dr Marion West

 

Dr Marion West

 

Title:- Supporting Autonomy and Negotiating Advice in Dissertation Supervision -  a case study of face-to-face and online interaction: expectations, interactions and reactions

 

Amidst a global, market-led, neoliberal drive for universities to dramatically increase numbers of students (Jones  2019), I  question the  sustainability of one-to-one  supervision when commuter students face challenges  and Covid-19  virus  may  reduce face-to-face gatherings.  A critical post-digital perspective  can help us make judgements  about how  best to  combine both individualised (and indeed group), online and offline, supervision.  My research will explore the mutual entanglements between online and offline student ­ supervisor    communication. A starting point is orientation to different roles and affective displays.